The XSLT C library for Gnome

CVS only : check the Changelog file for a really accurate description

1.1.0: Nov 4 2003

• Removed DocBook SGML broken support
• fix xsl:key to work with PIs
• Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen Petrov)
• xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher Dunnavant)
• Python: never use stdout for error
• extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
• header path fixes (Steve Ball)
• added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
• Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William Brack)
• Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
• Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
• Make sure xsl:sort is empty
• Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
• Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
• detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
• fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem

1.0.33: Sep 12 2003

This is a bugfix only release

• error message missing argument (William Brack)
• mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
• catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
• multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
• patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
• header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
• cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
• compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
• apply-templates crash (William Brack)
• bug with imported templates (William Brack)
• imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)

1.0.32: Aug 9 2003

• bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date (William Brack),

  speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William Brack)

• Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
• EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
• portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
• doc cleanup

1.0.31: Jul 6 2003

• bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner), xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),

  stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack), RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30

• avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
• fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in 1.0.30
• Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
• HP-UX portability fix

1.0.30: May 4 2003

• Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
• Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor), current node when templates applies to attributes

1.0.29: Apr 1 2003

• performance improvements especially for large flat documents
• bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace declarations with xsl:elements.
• portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris (Ben Phillips)

1.0.28: Mar 24 2003

• fixed node() in patterns semantic.
• fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
• fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
• cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs in the process

1.0.27: Feb 24 2003

• bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
• Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)

1.0.26: Feb 10 2003

• Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which could lead to a crash

1.0.25: Feb 5 2003

• Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
• Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in libxml2-2.5.2
• Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.

1.0.24: Jan 14 2003

• bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden), extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
• HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
• adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
• fix the API generation scripts
• API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
• added XML description of the EXSLT API
• added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
• Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
• document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs

1.0.23: Nov 17 2002

• Windows build cleanup (Igor)
• Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
• Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating EXSLT
• various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
• Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
• added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)

1.0.22: Oct 18 2002

• Updates on the Windows Makefiles
• Added a security module, and a related set of new options to xsltproc
• Allowed per transformation error handler.
• Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute lists

1.0.21: Sep 26 2002

• Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
• Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
• Logos from Marc Liyanage
• Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
• Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), Windows (Igor), Python detection
• Documentation improvements: John Fleck

1.0.20: Aug 23 2002

• Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
• fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
• possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
• try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the cases
• Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
• Fixed a few XSLT reported errors

1.0.19: July 6 2002

• EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
• xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
• xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
• document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
• xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
• xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
• a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of libxml2

1.0.18: May 27 2002

• a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen, Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard Jinks)
• xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark Vakoc
• there is a new API to save directly to a string xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
• specific error registration function for the python API

1.0.17: April 29 2002

• cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by Igor
• a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
• EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
• attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal

1.0.16: April 15 2002

• Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't save
• portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings

1.0.15: Mar 25 2002

• Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..] templates
• Debug of memory alocation with valgind
• serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook processing
• revamp of the Windows build

1.0.14: Mar 18 2002

• Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
• Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
• Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows portability fixes

1.0.13: Mar 8 2002

• a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
• Improvement of the Python bindings
• Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date functions.

1.0.12: Feb 11 2002

• Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
• half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones

1.0.11: Feb 8 2002

• Change of Licence to the MIT Licence
• Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to extend the engine with functions written in Python
• A number of bug fixes
• Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
• Portability fixes

1.0.10: Jan 14 2002

• Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
• Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
• Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
• Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell level
• A few bug fixes

1.0.9: Dec 7 2001

• Makefile patches from Peter Williams
• attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
• obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
• xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the documentation
• patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be made dynamic really
• fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML output
• patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger

1.0.8: Nov 26 2001

• fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code cleanup
• patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
• OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
• fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking informations

1.0.7: Nov 10 2001

• remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
• Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
• fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
• fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file

1.0.6: Oct 30 2001

• bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce Miller)
• update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
• fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)

1.0.5: Oct 10 2001

• some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from Igor
• fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
• support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial contribution from Darren Graves)
• better handling of XPath evaluation errors

1.0.4: Sep 12 2001

• Documentation updates from John fleck
• bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability improvements
• Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String, Time and Date core functions support

1.0.3: Aug 23 2001

• XML Catalog support see the doc
• New NaN/Infinity floating point code
• A few bug fixes

1.0.2: Aug 15 2001

• lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
• a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
• improvements on the extension framework
• documentation improvements
• Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
• handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default

1.0.1: July 24 2001

• initial EXSLT framework
• better error reporting
• fixed the profiler on Windows
• bug fixes

1.0.0: July 10 2001

• a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
• added a documentation for writing extensions
• fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
• added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc --profile option
• fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
• exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as expected
• added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the spec

0.14.0: July 5 2001

• lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
• completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
• Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
• the Windows MSC environment should be complete
• tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads

0.13.0: June 26 2001

• lots of cleanups
• fixed a C++ compilation problem
• couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
• try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test with them
• fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
• Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
• update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
• William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
• added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc

0.12.0: June 18 2001

• fixed a dozen of bugs reported
• HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too)
• William fixed some problems with document()
• Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too)
• John Fleck added a tutorial
• Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
• XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if requested
• made xsltproc --version more detailed

0.11.0: June 1 2001

Mostly a bug fix release.

• integration of catalogs from xsltproc
• added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
• fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
• document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
• fixed bug with PI and comments processing
• William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode

0.10.0: May 19 2001

• cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
• fixed URI resolution in document()
• force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time, even if unused ...
• Fixed HTML default output detection
• Fixed double attribute generation #54446
• Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
• More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
• Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
• added a documentation on the libxslt internals
• William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
• Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
• added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
• a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were submitting them

0.9.0: May 3 2001

• lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
• xsltproc should work with multiple params
• added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
• improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets should be faster
• using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded programs should work now
• fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
• Implemented multiple level of sorting

0.8.0: Apr 22 2001

• fixed ansidecl.h problem
• fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
• sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
• fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations (requires libxml-2.3.7)
• fixes to current() and key()
• other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML stylesheets

0.7.0: Apr 10 2001

• cleanup using stricter compiler flags
• command line parameter passing
• fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
• added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()

0.6.0: Mar 22 2001

• another beta
• requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
• document() extension should function properly
• fixed a number or reported bugs

0.5.0: Mar 10 2001

• fifth beta
• some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
• fixed problems with handling of tree results
• fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
• added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
• incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
• a bug fix on for-each

0.4.0: Mar 1 2001

• fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
• bug fixes
• some optimization
• started implement extension support, not finished
• implemented but not tested multiple file output

0.3.0: Feb 24 2001

• third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
• lot of bug fixes
• some optimization
• added DocBook XSL based testsuite

0.2.0: Feb 15 2001

• second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
• getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML and XPath support of libxml
• start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated stylesheets (in section I of the XML REC)
• Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of key() and document() is not complete

0.1.0: Feb 8 2001

• first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
• lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete

0.0.1: Jan 25 2001

• first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
• Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being feature complete

Daniel Veillard